Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eddle Bursk, who has performed consistently in the 123-pound post usually occupied by Lee, will start tonight. Bud Adams and Icko Iben, both undefeated, will wrestle at 130 and 137, respectively...
...much more interesting at the end of The Confident Years, when he launches a major attack on the "religion of art," of which he considers Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot the high priests. Modern writing, as Brooks sees it, is split between the "religion of art" and the Jeffersonian tradition; Eliot and Pound have sneered at the Jeffersonians, who have tried, for their part, to realize "the vision of a good life and world that had sprung from the Enlightenment and the age of revolutions." That Pound and Eliot are gifted poets, Brooks does not question. He insists, however...
...Starr seemed to thrive under his double routine, even though it meant working far into the night and often over a bewildering assortment of courses-Greek for Southwestern, business law for State, biology for Southwestern, mythology for State. Meanwhile, he happily pursued his extracurricular jobs. He never lost a pound, never appeared tired, and his work never fell off. Last week, Memphis State decided that college policy could no longer permit such goings-on, and Starr reluctantly resigned from the campus. But that did not mean that he intended to change his habits much. "I've got to find...
...tons, ixora-bloomed in profusion around the track; banks of clipped Australian pine lined the clubhouse drive. This, he decided, was the life-a far cry from his boyhood years on the farm in Kansas. Last week, just two months after he lost his apprentice allowance (a five-pound weight concession), Charlie Burr entered an exclusive fraternity: he became the seventh American jockey to ride 300 winners in a year...
...kerosene and gasoline vapors. When they first blew up test mixtures of kerosene mist, they discovered that the intricate process of combustion was much slower than they had expected. It took all of one-hundredth of a second for the expanding pressure of the explosion to rise one pound per square inch. That left "bags of time," they decided, to quench an accidental explosion before it could cause any damage...